urbani has a representative. information from his facebook page show this individual was about six, eight weeks ago celebrating his marriage with urbani in person officiating. this is akin to having a very senior member of the clergy of iran, a personal representative of the supreme leader, celebrating the marriage of a muslim convert to islam in a very remote region of south america. it tells us how important that connection is, and it shows the link in this religious-social infrastructure in a critical point placed that is considered to be one of the highest in crime in latin america currently even worse than some of the colombian cities during the height of the drug crisis. the importance that this city has come to have in the design of iranian policy and in the interaction between hezbollah and iran in latin america. >> thank you. mr. chairman, i wish i could take more time. i didn't even get to any of the other issues. the iranian connection here, though, i would just recommend that we might want to take ano

urbani has a representative. information from his facebook page show this individual was about six, eight weeks ago celebrating his marriage with urbani in person officiating. this is akin to having a very senior member of the clergy of iran, a personal representative of the supreme leader, celebrating the marriage of a muslim convert to islam in a very remote region of south america. it tells us how important that connection is, and it shows the link in this religious-social infrastructure in a critical point placed that is considered to be one of the highest in crime in latin america currently even worse than some of the colombian cities during the height of the drug crisis. the importance that this city has come to have in the design of iranian policy and in the interaction between hezbollah and iran in latin america. >> thank you. mr. chairman, i wish i could take more time. i didn't even get to any of the other issues. the iranian connection here, though, i would just recommend that we might want to take ano

urbani, infamous for his role in the bombing in buenos aires in '94 when 85 people were murdered and many more grievously injured. so, that policy continues. it's expanding. it's ongoing. it's well financed, sustained, and i see no signs that there is any change in approach. it is a policy that has been ongoing for over 30 years that relies on the social network -- >> and you're saying that it's expanding? >> it is expanding, yes, sir. it is expanding because it is making a conscious, sustained, well-funded effort to actually reach out not just to the local shia communities which are mainly syrian and lebanese, but it is actually reaching out to convert non-muslims to shia islam -- >> so you have the stream leader's surrogates there on the one hand and then in tandem with that you have hezbollah. >> correct. and what i see is that the hezbollah clerics are mainly focusing on the shia communities of arab immigrants of lebanese and syrian descent. the iranians are focusing on the outreach missionary effort, but they are combined, most of the time they are overlapping in the same mosque